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A 3-D printing technology developed by Silicon Valley startup, Carbon3D Inc., enables objects to rise from a liquid media continuously rather than being built layer by layer as they have been for the past 25 years, representing a fundamentally new approach to 3-D printing. The technology, to appear as the cover article in the March…

When Jim Aspell became the first patient at UNC to receive a new aortic heart valve using transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), he had two primary goals: 1.) to survive and spend Easter with his family and 2.) to return to the Dean E. Smith Center to watch Carolina basketball. “Climbing those steps in the…

Jonathan Lees, chair of the department of Geological Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has traveled all over the world — Russia, Guatemala, Italy, Japan — to conduct research on volcanoes and gain a better understanding of the inner workings of our earth. Most recently he and three of his students…

In his recent State of the State address, Gov. Pat McCrory laid out his vision of making North Carolina the third vertex of a “national innovation triangle.” That vision, which McCrory also outlined a few months ago during his University Day speech at Memorial Hall, calls for connecting the state’s economy with Silicon Valley and…

When the Tar Heels are on TV, you won’t see Art Shelby sitting still for long. If the Carolina men’s basketball team is struggling, the long-time Tar Heels fan shuffles around his Harrisburg, Pennsylvania home looking for a new television to watch the game on with hopes that the change may spark the team. Sometimes,…

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill appears on multiple lists of schools, degree programs and specialty areas newly ranked in 2015 by U.S. News and World Report for the 2016 edition of “America’s Best Graduate Schools.” They include: School of Medicine Overall Primary care, 2nd Research, 22nd Specialty areas Family medicine, 2nd Rural…

Calling the University the “catalyst” of the Northside Neighborhood Initiative, Chapel Hill Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt announced March 9 that Carolina is making a $3 million, 10-year, no-interest loan to help stabilize the traditionally African-American neighborhood. About 100 residents, University and town staff, politicians and even some toddlers clapped and cheered their approval at the event,…

When the Duke’s men’s basketball team traveled to the Dean E. Smith Center on Saturday evening, it walked into a raucous, hostile arena created by decades of rivalry. But off the court and outside the Dean Dome, University of North Carolina and Duke researchers are teaming up in science labs and have their eyes set…

A lifelong Tar Heels basketball fan, Julie Dalton Loos knew she wanted to be connected to the University of North Carolina basketball program when she arrived in Chapel Hill as a freshman in 1979. After an attempt to join the cheerleading squad failed to get Loos courtside, she took more drastic measures: she wrote coach…

While most people are climbing into bed at the end of a long day, Jenny Surane is still going strong. As the Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Tar Heel and a senior business journalism major, Surane spends her day working with words, and many times that work doesn’t wrap up until after 2 a.m. Learn more…